Among the current therapies for the treatment of AK are excisional surgery, cryosurgery, electrodessication and curettage, topical chemotherapy and light therapies. With cryotherapy, treated lesion clearance rates at 3 months post-treatment after double-freeze thaw cryotherapy has been reported to be around 76-88%; Overall lesion clearance rate at approximately 5 months post-cryosurgery has been reported to be 35-51%.